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What do these individuals have in common?

Evicted Resident In Police Custody After Friendship Standoff


Ex-counselor's own mental health crumbled for years before 67-hour police standoff in Norfolk


Heavily Armed White Man Arrested Alive After Shooting at Police Officer

 

If you were to put me in her place under the same circumstances, the cops would hit the BK drive through and then put me in a cell at the jail. I wouldn't be riddled with bullets in a drawer at the morgue.

 

Chicago's 'Skullcap Crew': band of police accused of brutality evade discipline

I know this was carried out with the help of NU and U of C researchers, but I still find it crazy that a British newspaper has done way more to expose police brutality in Chicago than any of the major media outlets in the city combined.

 

"But what Joyce, Skye, and Korryn teach us together, in the space of a violent long weekend, is that all Black women’s lives are shaped in the context of multiple kinds of state-based and intimate jeopardies, and in the end, neither the state, nor (unevolved) cishetero Black men are a respecter of persons when it comes to whom they’ll slaughter. These sisters, taken together, teach us Black women are more often victims of lethal state and intimate violence, than perpetrators. In this moment, we need better analysis of how patriarchy shapes the life conditions of Black womenfolk, trans and cis, included, because we dying in these streets. (We are sophisticated enough to come up with an analysis that does not let Black ciswomen off the hook for transphobia, but that also does not gloss over the intensity and pervasiveness of state and communal forms of violence against all sisters. Black feminism been teaching us for 100 years that the femaleness that constitutes most forms of Black womanhood is a site of extreme violence, domination and cruelty. We can, should, and will ride for the right of our trans and gnc sibs to live and thrive, without succumbing to an inadequate analysis of structural violence against all Black femme-identified folk.)

So even as we march, wail, organize, and bring the revolution we so desperately need, let’s keep our Black feminist weight up. Let’s keep our theorizations of patriarchy tight. Let’s keep connecting the dots. Let’s think more robustly about jeopardy, intersectionality, and simultaneous oppressions, than we have been. We owe it to Black women and Black people to do so"


Connect The Dots: For Korryn Gaines, Skye Mockabee and Joyce Quaweay

 

reparations

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/04/opinion/uncovering-the-chicago-police-cover-up.html?mwrsm=Facebook

"The video, recorded on Oct 20, 2014, and doubtless available to officials within hours, clearly shows the teenager moving away from the police when an officer shoots him 16 times, mostly while he is lying on the ground. Police officers at the scene later claimed that Mr. McDonald was lunging at the officers.

The lawyers who petitioned the court for a special prosecutor charged that in the course of what they described as a massive cover-up, officers had “intimidated witnesses, manufactured witness statements, destroyed evidence, prepared false police reports and may have provided false grand jury testimony” as part of an effort to portray the shooting as a heroic act of self-defense by a police officer in danger."

 

Originally, police were saying they used a key to the door. The report now says they kicked in the door:


Court documents say police kicked open door at Korryn Gaines' apartment

 

Federal Judge Seals Alton Sterling's Autopsy Report

 

I haven't been able to read any of those links yet cause I'm working all day but the link names and short excerpts are all destroying my soul

 

Sorry @Kiana. This one won't be much better:

Zimmerman punched for ‘bragging’ about killing Trayvon Martin


I'll be happy when he is dead.

 

And Dylann Roof was beaten in prison this morning

 

This Is Why Black Lives Matter Is Not Going Away

 

"The shooting itself was not captured by video. But O’Neal was shot in the back and unarmed, showing that he could not have possibly shot at the officers, like one alleged. A source told a local ABC affiliatethat apparently the officers who fired the fatal shots thought O’Neal had shot at officers previously on the scene."

Chicago police shooting of Paul O’Neal: officers shoot and kill unarmed black man

People want to moralize about Korryn Gaines' having a gun pointed at the police, but this is precisely why one would do that. No amount of videos of police officers hugging black children will chance that, because, at the end of the day, when we get to the age of ten or twelve, we'll be ******s to them and they won't hesitate to shoot, even if we are running away.

 

Somebody on reddit is literally trying to convince me that "dindu nuffin" is not a racist term

 

Police Union Under Fire for Controversial “Black Labs Matter” Photo

 

This one.

What in the actual fuck? "Became dislodged" my ass. More like "Hey, turn that shit off so I can shoot this guy."

 

I wanna talk to you guys about something that has been really bothering me lately:

BLM protesting in London and even Sweden. Now in the context of America BLM makes perfect sense to me, the US has a huge problem and everybody knows this.

However this movement gaining ground in Europe is really bewildering me. I highly doubt anyone has been killed by the police in the UK or Sweden or Europe in general. I'm sort of being hyperbolic here, surely people have died because of the police but the circumstances surely have been different. Plus there have been police brutality motivated protests in the UK and France in the past if I recall correctly, but not very recently.

Now I perfectly get people wanting to show solidarity with the american movement, but something is still really bothering me about this:
The americanisation of European (identity) politics. This is what bothers me. The american cultural exports have gotten to the point where many young European are starting to lose interest in local issues and are instead focusing on everything american. But the worst part is that people have started looking at EVERYTHING through the american-lens. This is especially harmful when applied to racial issues, because the issues surrounding minority communities in the US and EU are very different.

Now I understand that the BLM-brand can be used in Europe to draw attention to issues other police brutality. But the fact that it's an american export that largely views everything through an america-centric prism still leaves a very bad taste in my mouth.
I think there should be more talk about american cultural imperialism and it's negative effects on the rest of the world. A good example that everyone can observe is the fact that you can't walk around mainland europe without hearing the local languages getting butchered by young people who are replacing every other local word with english.


I went on a tangent here but whatever.

 

Death of Mark Duggan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

BAME deaths in police custody | INQUEST

Police up to 28 times more likely to stop and search black people – study

 

cmon man i acknowledged that in the next 2 sentences

 

Just watched that Paul O'Neal video, unfucking real. The incompetence level of those officers trying to shoot the car down the street in a residential neighborhood

 

Well, I think the point of the European offshoots is related to the fact that white supremacy is global, along with anti-blackness. It has the added weight, in Europe, of being filtered through anti-immigrant sentiment as well. I do think there needs to be specificity to the struggle, as our social formation is different from theirs, but I'm not sure that that is what is happening. At least, from what I've read, there has been that sort of specificity, despite borrowing the language and rhetoric that originated in America.

 

well you kinda said one thing in one sentence and then the complete opposite in the following sentence, I wasn't quite sure where you stood lol

 

people are disgusting, trigger warning here are the tweets in question
Fifth Harmony's Normani is taking a break from Twitter after being bullied by her racist "fans"

 

I can't find the case study I was assigned on racial profiling. I want to see how much the data has changed from then til now.